Millions of European workers earn only a fraction of the average salary of their country.
The latest Eurostat data show that almost 15% of the EU workforce is made up of low-wage employees.
Low -wage workers are employees who earn two thirds or less from median salary in their respective countries.
The report shows a notable gender difference: 18.2% in women enter this category, against 12.5% of men.
Young people are particularly affected: an employee at low wages out of four under 30 years of age.
The highest actions of poorly paid workers were found in Bulgaria (26.8%), Romania (23.9%), Latvia (23.3%) and Greece (21.7%), while, on reversal, countries like Portugal, Sweden, Finland, Italy and Slowora show the lowest rates, involving homogeneous.
Food and hotel workers are most likely to be affected
Hotel and food workers are at the top of the list, employing more than a third (35.1%) of all low -wage employees, closely followed by administrative and support services, at 32%.
The type of contract and education also play a major role in defining profits.
People on fixed -term contracts are more than twice as likely to fall into this category than those of permanent commitments (27.2% against 12.6%).
Education also makes a huge difference, because almost 28% of workers with a low level are found in low -wage support, against only 4.8% of those who have so -called higher education and average education (17.5%).
Editor Mert can yilmaz
